Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Cowley took part in a suicidal mission to reinforce the besieged Kut garrison in ...

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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History, Selena Wisnom When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and ...

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Injured British soldiers being carried by stretcher down a busy communication trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), WW1. As the Gallipoli Campaign was coming to a close, the British found that they ...

World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, ...

By Malak Shalaby Before modern borders, before passports, before Google Maps—these Middle Eastern countries were already thriving. From ancient civilizations to empires that shaped art, science, and ...

Researchers in Iraq have uncovered an extensive Mesopotamian canal system used for irrigation over 3,000 years ago.

For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of resistance” gained influence in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, where it railed against Israel and the United States. In ...